WEBVTT BOB.>> YEAH, THAT SEARCH ENDED THISMORNING, ALL OF THESE DAYS AND ALL OF THESE WEEKS, A WOMAN WALKING HER DOG ALONG THE RIVERSIDE SPOTTED THE BODY, IT DRIFTED DOWN FURTHER AND RETRIEVED BY AUTHORITIES IN THAT DIRECTION AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND YOU'LL SEE THROUGH THE MORNING POLICE BELIEVED IT WAS MORE THAN AN UNIDENTIFIED BODY, IT COULD HAVE WELL BEEN DO DAKOTA JAMES. YOU SAW THE POLICE IN ROBINSON TOWNSHIP AND THEN YOU SAW THE ARRIVAL OF PITTSBURGH'S REPRESENTATIVES, ALLEGHENY COUNTY HOMICIDE ALL CONVERGING HERE. A SHORT TIME AGO IN THE PAST HOUR, THE POLICE CHIEF OF ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, DALE WHITMEIER CONFIRMED WHAT THEY TOLD WITH THE MEDICAL EXAMINER AT THE SCENE.>> THE MEDICAL EXAMINER JUST MADE POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION AND IT'S THE BODY OF DAKOTA JAMES.>> ONCE IT WAS DETERMINED WHO IT WAS, WE PASSED ON TO THE CITY TO HANDLE THE REST. THE FAMILY HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.>> THERE WAS A FEMALE WALKING HER DOG ALONG THE RIVER BANK AND SPOTTED THE BODY.>> WE CAN TELL YOU THAT AUTHORITIES HAVE CLEARED THE SCENE, BUT THERE HAS BEEN A LOTOF ACTIVITY THROUGH THE DAY. PITTSBURGH'S ACTION NEWS 4 REPORTER DAVID KAPLAN, DAVID HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CASE OF THIS MISSING MAN, DAKOTA JAMES FOR COVERING THE SEARCH THIS MORNING, AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, JUST TO ORIENT PEOPLE, WE'RE IN BETWEEN THE NEVILLE ISLAND BRIDGE AND INTERSTATE 79. AND THERE WAS A SEARCH BEFORE TWO WEEKS AGO IN THIS, AND AT THE 0 E-O RIVER, ON THE SIDE OFNEVILLE ISLAND, VISIBLE, YOU COULD SEE INVESTIGATORS MADE THIS DISCOVERY AND EXAMINED SOME OF THE CONTENTS ON, NOW WEKNOW IT IS DAKOTA JAMES' BODY AND MADE THAT IDENTIFICATION TOOUR CREWS ON THIS SIDE OF THE RIVER, JUST MOMENTS LATER. AS YOU KNOW, DAKOTA JAMES HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE JANUARY 25TH, LAST SEEN NEAR CAT'S PLAZA IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBUGH. SEVERAL SEARCHES, HIS FAMILY FROM FREDERICK MARYLAND HERE SEVERAL TIMES AS PART OF THE SEARCH AND THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY, WE CAN IMAGINE, THEY'VE BEEN VERY DEVASTATED THROUGHOUT THISWHOLE PROCESS, BEING OPEN ABOUTTHIS SEARCH, OPEN ABOUT THEIR DESIRE TO GET DAKOTA JAMES HOME. NOW, AS ALL OF THIS ON NEVILLE ISLAND, SHE'S BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CASE VERY CLOSELY.>> THE FIRE WHISTLE WENT OFF SOI CAME BACK HERE TO SEE WHAT